Naples, Florida
Storage for Naples collectors, nine miles inland.
Naples has more motor condominium product per capita than anywhere else in Florida, and it is the most expensive in the state. It is simply the reason a Naples collector should know what the same square footage costs in south Lee County.
Getting here from Naples
13461 Shire Lane
I-75 north from Immokalee Road or Pine Ridge Road to Exit 131 (Daniels Parkway), then west to Shire Lane.
- Inland from the open Gulf
- 9 miles
- FEMA flood zone
- Zone X
- Wind design
- 170 mph
Flood
The flood zone in Naples, and the flood zone here.
Zones are assigned parcel by parcel. Check your own address before relying on any general description.
Current exposure
Naples
- FEMA flood zone
- Coastal Naples west of US 41 is largely in FEMA Special Flood Hazard Areas (AE and VE near the beachfront); inland Naples east of I-75 is more commonly Zone X.
- Surge pathway
- Naples Bay and the Gordon River pushed surge inland along the canal system during Ian; Naples Pier was destroyed.
The Excalibur position
Excalibur, Fort Myers
- FEMA flood zone
- FEMA Flood Zone X, outside the Special Flood Hazard Area
- Surge pathway
- Roughly nine miles inland from the open Gulf
Verify your own address
Flood zones are assigned parcel by parcel. The figures above describe each community in general terms and must be checked against Lee County GIS and the FEMA Flood Map Service Center for any specific address.
What Hurricane Ian did in Naples.
Ian made landfall at Cayo Costa in Lee County on 28 September 2022 as a 150 mph Category 4. Naples sat on the southern side of the eye and took the surge that the storm dragged up the coast: water moved up Naples Bay and the Gordon River and into the streets off Fifth Avenue South, and the Naples Pier was destroyed.
Garages in Old Naples, Aqualane Shores, Port Royal and Royal Harbor flooded with salt water. Saltwater immersion is close to a total loss on any vehicle with electronics, insurers rarely repair them. Many of the collections that were parked at home that week were not recoverable.
That is the specific reason Naples owners started buying storage inland after 2022, and it is why we publish the flood zone comparison below rather than a slogan.
The inland ownership case for Naples collectors.
Almost always a collector rather than a coach owner: four to eight cars, often including something exotic, usually with a house that has a three-car garage already full and an HOA in Port Royal, Grey Oaks or Pelican Bay that has opinions about the trailer.
If you visit your collection twice a week, that drive matters and Naples product may be the right answer for you.
If you visit twice a month, it usually is not.
What Naples collectors keep here
The Naples buyer almost never arrives with one car. Four to eight is typical, usually with something exotic in the group and usually with a lift somewhere in the plan, which makes this a ceiling question before it is a budget question.
There are 25 ft to the deck and fourteen feet of clear height beneath the mezzanine, so a two-post lift and the car above it both fit without anyone negotiating. Each bay is individually metered at 220V/150A, 1 or 3 phase, which is the difference between running a lift, a compressor and a charger, and choosing two of the three. Climate control is dedicated to your unit rather than a set point averaged across a building.
What you give up is Naples. There is no clubhouse here and no events calendar, and the association fee funds the building rather than a lounge you would use twice a year. If the room full of other owners is the thing you are buying, buy it in Naples.
The second floor, and what Naples owners do with it
Every unit carries a finished mezzanine above the bay, 320 square feet on the smallest plan, with wet-bar plumbing roughed in and a luxury full bathroom with shower in every unit. There is coax to the unit, the gate is open 24/7 with camera monitoring and no office hours, and FedEx and UPS deliver to the unit door rather than to a front desk.
Most Naples owners build the second floor out. A lounge, a bar, somewhere to sit with the door up. It is the single most common conversation we have after a sale.
You can furnish it, wire it, air-condition it and spend an afternoon in it. You cannot live in it.
The distance also changes what the room is for. This is not somewhere you stop on the way home from work. It is somewhere you go on purpose, usually with the car you came to get.
Boats, on the trailer, indoors
A boat on a trailer needs a door before it needs anything else. Ours are sixteen feet wide by fourteen feet high, and Lance runs fifty-four feet deep for exactly this reason.
The part most Naples owners do not expect is that it is one bay. The boat, the tow vehicle and the cars sit on a single deed rather than in three arrangements in three places, each with its own bill and its own gate code.
The plans Naples owners choose for serious storage.
Knight
1,800 sq ft · 450 sq ft second floor
1,800 sq ft. The plan Naples collectors take most often, room for five or six cars with lifts, door-opening clearance on both sides, and a second floor above.
Knight plans
Regent
2,350 sq ft · 325 sq ft second floor
2,350 sq ft in an L-shape, for a larger collection that wants a display leg separate from the working bay.
Regent plansWhat discerning Naples buyers ask before they own.
The site-wide facts, stated once: 170 mph ultimate design wind speed, FEMA Flood Zone X, outside the Special Flood Hazard Area, roughly nine miles inland from the open Gulf, and an association fee of $1,000 per quarter on a 1,350 sq ft unit, increasing pro rata with size. RV dump station on site, included in the association fee. How the building is engineered and what it costs to own are explained in full on their own pages.